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The clarion., 1887-10-12
THE STATE DEBT.

The comparative statement of the re-
ceipts and disbursements for the wears
1885 and 1886 is the most important of
all we have yet published, because il
shows, under appropriate headings, the
transactions of 1886, which have not
until now, been published in the shape
in which we present them.
1t will be noticed that the receipts fol
1886 are largely in excess of those fol
1885, and that the increase is confined Il
a limited number of sources-the grea
The clarion., 1887-10-12

Drs. johnson and Quinche left Thurs
day night 70 attend the Baptist Associa-
ton to convene Friday, with Liberty
Church.
DR. Little has been sick . few days,
but We are glad to zee him up again at
present.
Prof. Hoge and wife have decided that
there y more real pleasure in using ones
own house than in boarding, 90 they
will try housekeeping this session.
Prof. +. + Laxkin, who was Tutor
The clarion., 1887-10-12
Cotton Manufactures at the South.

Since 1880 the number of cotton mills
at the South has increased from 164 to
232: the number of looms has doubled,
having increased from $4,000 to $4,000;
the number of spindles has also doubled,
having been 100000 in 1880 against
100000 in 1887. Seven years ago the
South consumed S7,OOO,OO0 pounds of its
own cotton. The home consumption
this year will reach 1S3, 100000 pounds.
The clarion., 1887-10-12

The HoTsEKEEPER for October will
contain full account Of the wedding OF
the manageress OF that paper, in the Min
neapolis, Minn., Exposition, on the even-
rate descriptions and illustrations of the
participants' wedding dresses and pres
enfs. s
A copy of this issue will be mailed free
to any Of onr lady readers sending their
address 70
The RUcxExE Pun. Co,
Minneapolis, MINI.
The clarion., 1887-10-12

We have now completed our examina-
tion of the receipts and disbursements
and debt statements published from the
first of January, 1876, to the first of
September, 1887, making such comments
as seemed to be necessary 10 a thorough
understanding of the States financial
transactions during that period.
In our next issue we will review our
work, and, in doing so, will state conclu
sions sustained by the figures already in
the possession of our readers, and will
make such changes in the method of
stating the total debt, the payable debt
and the non-payable debt, at the several
annual rests, as will relieve it of some OF
its complications.
We have in our possession the data
| from which to calculate the interest due
on bonds and insurance deposits which
was omitted from some of the debt
statements, and we will supply that de-
| ficiency.
The next number will be followed by
a tabular view of the receipts and dis
bursements for the entire period covered
| by our investigation, with which we
will conclude the series of articles on
} the State debt.
The clarion., 1887-10-12

1t will be noticed that additional
bonds to the amount of s1s1 900 have
been sold, and that the Eight Per Cent.
Loan has been paid.
The cash balance in the treasury Sep.
tember l, 1887, should be s12S, ,31S.44
not including the deposits of insurance
companies ($e5, ,000).
It may be found as follows:
Cash balance Jan. l. 1887 SIS. .e49 81
The clarion., 1887-10-12

The total debt September l, 1887, as
found by US, was s3, ,527, ,0l2.S1, and there
were in the treasury, including insur-
ance deposits Increased from $4,000 TO
s95, ,0O0), 1925, ,318.44; so that the total
debt less current funds" was SO, ,3O3,-
694.37.
The payable debt less "current fund"
September 1, 1887, was s99l ,517.55, found
as follows:
Total debt Sept l, 1857 s3,527,0l2 81
Non-payable debt....-.-...S2, 407,17e 81
Current funds........... 12s,51s Al 2.535, 495 &c
99l,517 So
The following figures prove the de-
crease of the total debt, the total debt
less current funds, and the payable debt
less current funds, and the increase of
the non-payable debt:
The clarion., 1887-10-12

1921 g.
In stating the payable debt of Janua-
~ |, 1887, we have pursued the method
adopted by the Treasurer in 1885, and
followed by him in 1886, except that we
have deducted the cash balance.
We have up to this time reviewed all
the transactions of the treasury for
eleven years, beginning with 1876
and comparing the receipts and
disbursements, year by year. This
branch of our investigation is at
an end, because we have reached
the year 1887, which is not yet closed.
But that the condition of the treasury
may be known, we have classified the
receipts and disbursements as shown by
the monthly statements of the Auditor
and Treasurer to the 1st of September.
This information, like that contained in
our statement of receipts and disburse
ments for the year 1886, has not before
been published in the form in which we
present it.
The clarion., 1887-10-12

SENATOR WALTBALL's speeches at
Columbus and Macon, last week, intensi-
fed the good opinion which the people
of East Mississippi already entertained
of him.
The clarion., 1887-10-12
Kinds County Democraiic-cOnseratIye Ticket.

FoR DISTRICT ATToRNKY-R. y. MILLER
f0R sEsAIOR-C. ~ WILLIAMSON.
For Representatives,
J. b. GBEAVEs, r. NJ GRIFFIN.
A. PURYEAR, C. +. HOOKER. JR.
For Sberid-s. B. THOMAS
For ChaHeery Clerk-W. W. DOWNING.
For Circuit Clerk W. Ii. POTTER
For Treasurer-A. q. LEWIS
For Assessor-H. CASPER
For SurVeyor-R II. BELL.
For Coroner and Ranger-A. L. ROUX.
The clarion., 1887-10-12
What q Ounce

| suffered with fever, hot head and foul
breath,
With stomach disordered-was sick unto
death.
| bore it q week-surely / was q Ounce
Then 1 took few @Pelletsn-they cured
me at ouce.
What Ounce, indeed, to neglect such a
remedy and suffer a week, when quick re-
lief could have beeu found In DR.. Pierce,s
Pleasant Purgafive Pellets.
The clarion., 1887-10-12

TIE Presidential party will be at
Memphis on Friday and Saturday next,
14th and 18th.
The clarion., 1887-10-12
ssls,o4s es

The receipts from taxes to the first of
September, in 1887, exceeds the receipts
from that source for the same period in
1886, $133-615sS As we learn from the
memoranda used in preparing the
tables, the amount received in 1886 to
September !, was 500, 1854, while in
1887, as shown by the table Of receipts,
it was sS40, ,S0l.s2- This shows that he
increase of the tax levy by the Legisla-
ture in 1886, will manifest itself much
more strikingly in the receipts for 1887,
than it did in the receipts for 1886,
much Of the taxes for 1886 having been
paid into the treasury after January /,
1887.
The clarion., 1887-10-12
Wholesale Lying.

We omitted from the letter of DIR.
Ieasdale published last week, in refer
ence to the Industrial Institute and
College a. Columbus some expressions
of his Indignation at the conduct
of what he termed "crank" who is a
candidate for the Legislature on plat.
form of opposition to the 1. l. & C. The
Doctor, in order to satisfy US of the pro
priety of his criticism, sends us the
following copy of letter recently ad
dressed to President Jones. After its
perusal our readers will agree with the
Doctor that the aspirant for legislative
honors is "a crank of the first water-a
ut subject for an insane asylum, or for a
felon's cell':
The clarion., 1887-10-12
i, Miss, Sept. % 1S8'

Miss, Sept. 70, 1881.
DEAR SIR: | wish to acknowledge the
receipt of, and express my thanks for,
your communication of July 9th, in
answer to mine of an earlier date.
wish now to procure some more informa-
! ton in regard to your school. since
- has been making some reckless
statements about it, some of which I
have already learned are incorrect.
He has stated in his speeches in his
canvass that there was an artesian well
at the college, that threw water into the
air 300 feet; that this well cost the
State 100000; and piping cost extra
SZo0.U0; that on visit he made to
Columbus, you conducted him to ap
upper room IN your new residence; that
you gave three fine knobs Il little twist
which gave you three different kinds of
drinks; that you gave another knob a
little turn and the top of the house slid
away, letting in great floods of golden
light, and he could not for the life of
him, as everything was so fine. tell
whether he was on earth or in heaven.
He said you went to Gov. Lowry and
demanded 100000 to buy two fine
Holstein cows; that you belonged to the
arlstocracy and could not afford to drink
common COW milk, and must have
biooded stock; when Gov. Lowry pre-.
sented your demand to the Legislature
that that body considered the amount a
little extravagant, and only allowed YOU
$500 90 with which you bought heifers:
and that you then demanded $500. 90 and
received IL to build them a fine house.
and a fine house it was, with green
Partisan blinds; and he wondered if the
cows had been trained 10 use the blinds.
and made this inquiry of you. He fur
ther stated, when girl arrived at the
school, Mrs. Jones took her by the arm
and conducted her to a forty-thousand
dollar millinery store, and ordered her
to lay aside what her mother had fur
nished her, and buy what she was pleased
to sell her, and threatened 10 send her
home at once if she hesitated or refused
and In that way she was amassing
handsome fortune. Her income was
further augmented by charging the girls
with all the milk and butter she cOuId
sell from the COWS paid for by the State
and also charged them handsomely for
the use OF steam laundry, furnished
and paid for by the State. He stated on
q few occasions that the girls dressed in
silks and satins, such as no poor girl
could afford
de has been more bitter against the |
democratic party than any Republican
ever heard his whole speech is like the |
above.
Will you please inform me how much |
truth, If any, there is in the above
statements. So
The clarion., 1887-10-12

The total debt January l, 1887, as
found by us was $685., ,O57.46, and there
were in the treasury, including insur-
ance deposits (ss5 5,0O0), $685., 2,049.95; so
that the total debt less current funds"
was So, ,3l6, ,007.5l.
The payable debt less current funds
January 1, 1887, was $994, 1915, found
as follows:
Total debt Jan. /, 1887. sS,6ss, ,O57 46
current funds 237,O49 95 2,64s,26s 81
-
The clarion., 1887-10-12

dy-Dr. 6aee's.
The clarion., 1887-10-12

CAN any thing be sadder than work left
diminished Yes, work never begun
The clarion., 1887-10-12

The Forest Register will soon cease to
greet its readers, as its accomplished
editress, Miss Blackwell, has decided to
close its publication very soon.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-11-11
Concerning wind-MilIs.

Wind-mills are a very ancient in
vention, but are not of much practical
value in country where fuel is cheap.
from the extreme irregularity of the
wind upon which they depend. 1t is
hoped that remedy for this defect
has been found by the Due de Feltre.
in the transformation of the surplus
energy of windy weather by causing it
to drive dynamo. thus converting it
into electricity, with which he charges
batteries of storage cells These in
turn can be utilized to drive the ma
chinery in time of calm. Any such
plan is, of course. attended by a very
large waste of power, but when the
original quantity is SO enormous as it
is in a gale of wind waste is matter
of very little moment Before the
world is many generations older more
attention will be given to the question
of yoking the great forces of nature to
our machinery, and utilize the enormous
energy of the winds, waves, tides, not
to mention water power and the direct
radiation from the sun. Our store of
available coal will doubtless last for
many n long day to come, but we
ought not to forget that we are a race
of spendthrifts. living on our capital.
and that we must not miss any oppor-
tunity of economizing the limited re-
sources of our estate.-London NeUs.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-11-11
slonAL.sERvlce WORK.
Qualifications Expected in Employees and
the Pay Given Them.

Qualifications Expected In Employees and
the Pay Given Them.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
duties of the United States Signal-Ser-
,, vice Department are for those in minor
branches exacting and the salaries paid
quite small. there are q great number
of applications constantly coming in.
The assistant observers, or privates as
they are ranked. only get $1,000 per
year for the New York station. At all
other stations east of the Mississippi
except Boston, Philadelphia, New Or
leans. Chicago and jacksonville, the
pay is $50 per month. The sergeants
of the highest rank provided for in the
service get only about $50 per month
more.
To secure a place in the service an
application to the chief signal officer
at his headquarters in Washington is
the first step. A prompt answer may
be expected, which will state whether
or not any men are wanted IN the SER
vice. If there are vacancies blanks
will accompany this response, on which
the applicant must fill out the answers
to a lot of questions that constitute a
preliminary examination. If this paper
is satisfactory the applicant is referred
to Washington or the nearest large
signal-service station to his home, for
more thorough examination follows.
This being satisfactorily passed. the
applicant is enlisted and assigned to a
station, where he is broken in to the
work of the service.
The necessary qualifications. as shown
by the examination, are first, quickness
in figures with the accompaniment of
accuracy. The hi CHER mathematics are
not requisite. plain arithmetic being
all that is necessary. The other
branches touched upon are grammar,
geography, history, penmanship and
spelling. The history is United States
and the geography local, but very thor
ough. Self-reliance is looked for, and
man is expected to be able to take
charge of station when he has had n
little experience. In the service his
education is supposed to continue. He
is expected to gain a knowledge of as
tronomy, on which there is preliminary
examination, and to keep ND with the
development of new theories and me-
neurological methods.-N Y. Sun.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-11-11
A British Gale.

LONDON, Nov. IA gale prevails
throughout England. Telegraph wires
have been broken, chimneys blown down
and trees uprooted A number OF minor
marine casualties have been reported. Sew
en- vessels were wrecked at Cardiff and
many wrecks are reported from other
places. The gale has stopped the bathing
at Brighton. The gale, which is terrific,
extends around the entire coast of tue
United Kingdom, and it Is accompanied by
rain. Reports Of the stranding OF vessels
continue to be received and an immense
amount of damage has been done. AT Fal
mouth number of vessels have been driven
ashore. Among them IS the Danish brig
Thusnelde, Captain Gristrup, from Rio
Grande, September 4, which is submerged
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-11-11
TRICKS ON THE STAGE.
Thrilling Life and Death Struggle.

n h1ie anu Oe0tn Struggle.
Some time ago there was on exhibition. lin
New y orlS, what was called the "Wonderful
electrical manr'
That ''wonder'' now says that he was al
ways secretly connected tcith a bdttery SO ar
ranged as to defeat discovery!
Many 'freaks of nature" are only freaks
OF clever deceptive skill.
Bishop. the mind-rcader, so-called, was
shown TO be only a shrewd student of hui
man nature, whose reading of thought was
not phenomenal.
Even so intelligent man as Robert Dale
owen was for many years fully persuaded
that certain alleged spiritual manifestations
were genuine, but, in the Katie King case,
he eventually found that he had been re-
morsclessly deceived.
When to natural credulity is added a
somewhat easily fired imagination, spectreS
become facts, and clever tricks realities.
That man." remarked a prominent ply
stefan the other day to our reporter, 'thinks
he is sick. He is 4 'hypo' He comes here
regularly three times week for treatment
There is absolutely nothing the matter scth him.
but OF course every time he comes fix him
up something"
And he pays for its''
eyes, s3OOa visit. But what give him
has no remedial power whatever l have
to cater to his imaginary ills. He is one of
my best friends, and dare not dlsappoint
his fears"
An even more striking case of profession
al deluSion is related by w. H. Winton,
business manager of the Kingston IN. W
fireman:
'In 1883, Mr.. r. R., of New York, "a rela-
tive OF a late vice-president of the United
States) was seriously ill of q very fatal dis
order. The best physicians attended him,
but, until the last one was tried, he con-
stantly grew worse. This doctor gave him
some medicine in a twoounce bottle. Inn
proving, he got another bottle, paying $2
for each. He was getting relief after hav-
ing used several of these mysterious small
bottles.
One day he laid one on his desk in his New
York Office. In the same Office a friend was
using remedy put up in large bottle
By pure accident it was found out that these
two bottles contained exactly the same
medicine, the two ounce vial costing the
doctors patient 81, while his friend paid but
S1.25 for q bottle holding over sixteen
ounces OF Warmers safe cure. Tho doctors
services were stopped at once, the man
continued treating himself with what his
doctor had secretly prescribed Warmers
safe cure, which finally restored him to
health from an attack of what his doctors
called bright's disease"
If the leading physicians in the land,
through fear of the code, will secretly pre-
scribe Warmers safe euro in all cases of
kidney, liver and general disorder, do they
not thereby confess their own inability to
cure II, and, by the strongest sort of iudOrse-
ment, commend that preparation to the pub
lie!
We hear it warmly spoken of in every di-
rection, and we have no doubt whatever
That 1t Is, all things considered, the very
best article of the kind ever known.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-11-11
Indian Lands In Kansas.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-The Commissioner
Of the General Land Office has made a re.
port to the Secretary Of the Interior upor
the status of the New York Indian lands il
Kansas, in which he holds that these lands
were reserved By treaty stipulation, and
the reservation has never been lawfully
extinguished. The lands were offered for
sale by President Buchanan in August,
1880, and the Commissioner holds that
whatever rights settlers and purchasers
may have, acquired thereby, none OF the
lands were granted to the railroad
companies which have received patents
therefor. He recommends that suits b
Instituted to set aside these patenfA
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-11-11
WHOLESALE POISONING.
The Attendants ut Dance and Supper
Poisoned in q Mysterious Manner.


DELHI, La, Nov. last Friday evening
George c. King, who lives four or five
miles southwest Of Lamar, Franklin parish,
gave a dance and supper at his place.
After supper was nearly over all the
guests were taken violently sick. A doc
tor was sent for, who said that the sick
ness was caused by poison, and was unable
to render much relief. Louis King, Jr,
Ben King, Walter Bell, Lee Ford. John
O'Brien, Jr., and Miss Minnie Brown, all
white, and Seek Hill, colored, have
since died. The wife of Hill and
his six children, Asa Ford and six
children, white, Mrs. Louis King
and children, Fronie Walker and a child,
one of the Durham boys, Bruce Spires and
Hillyard Butler, wife and children arc
dangerously sick. but were alive at last
accounts. Abe Washburne was quite sick,
but is now out of danger. No motive can
be assigned for this dastardly deed. The
cook is not supposed to be guilty, as she is
sick and her husband and one
or two Of her children are dead. The
doctor and others are investigating the
matter to ascertain the nature of the
poison.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-11-11
CATTLE GROWERS.
The Convention ut Kansas City In Favor -
PfohibIting the Importation Of Cattle.

The Convention 1t Kanaas City In Favor =
Prohibiting the Importation of Cattle.
KANSAS CiTY, No.. Nov. AIN calling the
delegates of the Cattle Growers conven-
tion to order at 1880 o'clock yesterday
morning, Chairman Funk said that Cover.
nor John A. Martin, of Kansas, was pres
ent and would not object to saying few
words to the delegates. A moment later
he led Governor Martin forward to the
footlights, his appearance being the signal
for long applause. Governor Martin spoke
humorously of the cattle business and the
price Of beef to consumers.
The report of the legislative committee
was then read and adopted. The report
dwelt on the difficulty Of obtaining suitable
measures from Congress preventing the in
PRODUCTION of disease and facilitating the
interests Of cattle r,ising.
Chairman Funk introduced Mr.. c. w,
Baker, of Chicago, to whom had been as.
signed the duty of reading the paper on
"Middlemen," prepared by Mr.. 7. NJ.
8. Coy, of Chicago, in the absence Of the
latter. The paper was q defense of the
live stock commission merchants.
Much of the day was devoted to the dis
cussiOn Of pleuro-pneumonia and other dis
eases, several speakers thinking it advisa-
BILE to shut out foreign improved breeds
now that the country itself possessed these
breeds and could raise supply.
ID. +. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau of AMI
NAL Industry, read u paper on 1.-THE Out
break of Pleuro-Pneumonia ut Chicago, and
the Lessons which it Teaches"
In the afternoon W. S. q. Dean, Of Mich
gan, the representative Of the American
Jersey Cattle Club, of New York, read a
paper on ''Dairy Cattle"
The most interesting discussion Of the
day was inaugurated when the committee
on resolutions began to make its report.
They first recommended that the resolution
offered by MIR. Hazeltine. of Missouri, on
Government control Of the telegraph, etc,
be not adopted, as they did not consider it
germane to the work of the convention and
the purpose Of the association. Mr.. Hazel
tine expressed himself as much dissatisfied
with this disposition of his resolution.
The delegates then passed to the discus
sion of the most important topic that has
come before the convention SO far. 1t was
the resolution introduced by MIR. Junius
Clark, Of Iowa. declaring it to be the sense
of the association, and calling upon the
Secretary of the Treasury to suppress i'm
portationS from all foreign countries
afflicted with contagious cattle diseases.
After number of delegates had expressed
their opinions the resolution was put to
vote and adopted. the OILY negative vote
beng one from Delegate Hastings, of Hill
rois.